Mayra A Jimenez
Comm 180
Emily Edris
10/27/2015 “Standardized testing” College admission based tests (Standardized tests) have been around for centuries, they are used to measure the levels of intellectual and academic potential of students transitioning from high school to college. These test are the “make it or break it” point for students applying for intercollegiate college programs. There has been an ongoing debates as to whether college admissions based test help measure educational quality, but I personally believe that they do not, because these exams are racially biased and discriminatory for non-English speaking students and students with disabilities. Not only that but these test do not measure the accurate educational effectiveness of students but simply an inference.
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These tests are both known to be biased in the sense that students from a low-income middle class or minority type backgrounds', with learning disabilities are less likely to receive above average or average score on their tests. Taking into consideration that statistically, students who come from wealthy families who make over $100,000+ annually tend to do better than students from families who makes less than $20,000 annually. With that being said, the wealthier students have had heavily rote drill and test practices such as the PSAT, upper-class White children with more income are more likely to be given a better chance of receiving the "very best" or college preliminary studies while they're taking difficult courses as in reading, exploring, and comprehending quicker low income